it's so funny he just admits "i've never actually been in any kind of danger". dude doesn't really act this way, at best he play acts at hypervigilance. zero understanding of what kind of awareness keeps you safe in dangerous places.
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“oh, you think conservative men are terrified of big cities? common mistake. we are actually all just self-taught jason bournes.”
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sorry i had a thought but it derailed
These guys are scaredy-cats.
Then I started going to therapy for my anxiety issues.
Wood, on the other hand, is a pretty good choice. Might not stop a bullet, but anything with a decent thickness will eat a lot of kinetic energy.
That said my hyper-vigilance is so good that if I walk into a place and my bad person senses start tingling it's cause someone who I actually know is here but my eyes/brain haven't realized it yet. My great escape means I turn around and leave, lol.
I live and work in the South Side of Chicago. I've been doing so for multiple deades at this point.
I am never thag keyed up and zero things have happened.
It keeps the amygdala stimulated, since the potential threat of harm is real harm as far as it is concerned. Leaves the damn thing on a hair trigger, false-positiveing all day long.
I can get why a lot of them want a strong man to protect them. The idea of not dealing with it is nice.
Remove what you think you’re afraid of, and an overactive amygdala will find a new thing to obsess over.
After all, not once when going out do I consider how to get back home if a societal collapse was to happen at that time. Which is apparently what most men should be instinctually thinking about?
Like, my subconscious trains me in my sleep to remain hypervigilant. Because I'm a woman and if I'm not always aware, I could be assaulted.
What a miserable way to go through life.
I’ve got one, and it’s a daily battle not to see everything as a threat. It goes off on harmless things and people, and I have to sort through it all… because it isn’t always wrong. Just mostly wrong.
I can also understand why we’re usually easy to play. The idea of having the danger taken out of our lives is appealing… since most of us don’t know our brain will just find more.
Not saying *you're* any of that, only that I have zero empathy for these cowards who just fall into it and even think it's "cool" to do so.
It's not. It's weak.
The idea of a Strong Man making you safe is a lot more palatable than what works to *too many people*.
What works is having to fight insurance and do a lot of hard work getting medication and doing therapy.
So I have absolutely no empathy for them just deciding to wallow in it instead, making everyone's lives worse in the process.
The Conservative Upbringing has evolved to induce Anxiety and Ego. The former makes you easy to control, the latter blocks self reflection.
I got everyone out of that bistro alive. No one thanked me, because I was just doing what an alpha do.
This is so dumb to read as a woman. We aren’t wasting time triangulating how to make an action movie escape from a restaurant, we actually have to just constantly adjust for threats in day to day life.
But a) I admit I'm a huge dork and b) keep that shit to the inside thoughts.
https://bsky.app/profile/krupali.bsky.social/post/3lgiiqlwmzc2y
Meanwhile normal dudes just accept reasonable amounts of risk because they're confident in their ability to handle situations as they arise
Might dispel some of that rage
Me: So... you're afraid.
Conservatives: "But an action movie could happen at anytime!"
Another reason why men need to stop trying to speak for women. They clearly have no fucking idea what they're talking about.
*large conurbation between Birmingham & Wolverhampton, England
It's how it went for me at least.
They just look like hysterical rabbits in the end.
Spoiler alert: There aren’t many. I’m more concerned with getting hit by an e-bike.
But also I daydream a lot and oh yeah. High statistical likelihood of that one.
1: talks about this stuff all the time but is completely full of shit
2: talks about this stuff all the time but actually acts like this 24/7 and I'm pretty sure he's gonna kill someone or get killed over something really stupid some day
Certifiable. Someone 5150 Wayne.
WANYE (checking both of his guns): Sorry, we might have to cut this date short. Somebody's about to ruin everyone's time at this Shari's.
All these guys trying fake a crisis personality because they think Batman is cool. You’re not 14 anymore
She had a jealous husband?
"Hans. Buhby!"
Nah dude, she ain't unaware of the dangers of the city, she just knows that statistically speaking you're more likely to hurt her than a stranger.
In my, thankfully very limited experience, interpersonal skills and common sense will keep you safer than pretending to be Jason Bourne.
Hyper-Vigilance is a survival trait that makes men who get out of the dangerous situation really vulnerable to anyone who can play on fear.
They're always holding up the counter at the end, practically vibrating with a lust for violence as they expound on an imaginary scenario in which they will need to unleash all 3-5 guns they currently have on their person.
People who read shitty military pulp novels talk like this idiot.